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Androids

The Team That Built the Android Operating System

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The fascinating inside story of how the Android operating system came to be.

In 2004, Android was two people who wanted to build camera software, but couldn't get investors interested. Today, Android is a large team at Google, delivering an operating system (including camera software) to over 3 billion devices worldwide. This is the inside story, told by the people who made it happen.

Androids: The Team That Built the Android Operating System is a firsthand chronological account of how the startup began, how the team came together, and how they all built an operating system from the kernel level to its applications, and everything in between. It describes the tenuous beginnings of this ambitious project as a tiny startup, then as a small acquisition by Google that took on an industry with strong, entrenched competition.

Author Chet Haase joined the Android team at Google in May 2010 and later recorded conversations with team members to preserve the early days of Android's history leading to the launch of 1.0. This engaging and accessible book captures the developers' stories in their own voices to answer the question: How did Android succeed?

©2021 Chet Haase (P)2022 Tantor History History & Culture Technology Software
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I wish there was a way to turn off the footnotes. Most of them are known to me so they break the flow. It is like being picked up and carried to the bedroom but every few steps you’re dropped on the floor. Otherwise the authors narration is excellent.

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I've been working with the 'green' robot guy for a while (+-13 years) , so reading about how this whole thing started — two guys pitching a camera OS that nobody wanted to fund — was wild. Now it runs on 3 billion devices.

The best part? Seeing how they went from "who are these people?" to competing with Symbian and Windows Mobile when those were the kings of mobile.

Look, whether you're an Android fan or not, if you're into tech and love stories about teams pulling off the impossible, grab this book. It's not super technical — just real stories from the people who were there.

What an Android journey!

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